INSIDE INTELHUB

Team INTELHUB consists of experienced researchers, who all have considerable experience in collaborating with governmental institutions such as the police and the military. Furthermore, INTELHUB engages with a range of national and international partners, who are close companions and advisors and crucial for the project.

  • Kira Vrist Rønn

    HEAD OF INTELHUB.
    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF SECTION INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL POLITICS

    Areas of expertise
    Intelligence ethics | OSINT | Democratization and de-monopolization of intelligence | Digital Policing.

    I find energy in developing new paths of scholarly inquiry in the context of security and Intelligence. My main academic ambition is to lead and manifest a unique research hub on intelligence studies in Scandinavia. So far, I have transferred and refined distinctions from applied philosophy to the context of intelligence. This is evidenced in my main scholarly contributions for instance, on how to assess specific surveillance activities in the article “Out of Proportions?” and on the proliferation of intelligence logics into non-intelligence contexts in Moral Issues in Intelligence-led Policing. My academic ideal is to create synthesis between specific security practices and theoretical conceptualizations.

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  • Mia Hartmann

    POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

    Areas of expertise
    Open source intelligence in closed (classified) services | Emergent technologies and learning | Digital transformation | Organizational psychology

    My research is committed to the powers of ‘underground’ dynamics that shape intelligence realities. I believe that we can find precious insights in silent struggles that intelligence professionals experience in their everyday endeavors to adjust their work to new challenges they face. My work focuses on learning practices that users of new technologies engage with that are not necessarily obvious to management, but nevertheless drives organisational development.

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  • Melanie Sofia Hartvigsen

    PHD. FELLOW

    Areas of expertise
    Intelligence accountability | Intelligence oversight mechanisms | Secret organizations and democratic dialogue and participation

    In my research, I delve into intelligence accountability processes and interpretations, examining perspectives from intelligence services, oversight bodies, and civil society. I believe that to understand the intricacies and disputes of intelligence accountability it requires grasping stakeholders’ perceptions and power dynamics. Using a sociological lens, I focus on Danish intelligence accountability practices, exploring underlying logics and power struggles among involved actors. The aim is to gain insight into how accountability actions impact intelligence legitimacy.

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  • Adam Diderichsen

    POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

    Areas of expertise
    Political philosophy and intelligence | Policing | Democracy and the police organisation

    I have a background in philosophy and policing. In my research, I focus on the relationship between security knowledge and democracy in police and intelligence organisations. Epistemology, organisational structure, and political power are intertwined in ways that determine what democracy is, not as an abstract ideal, but as concrete social reality.

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  • Josephine Moll Thayssen

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

    Areas of expertise I am a Master of International Security and Law student, currently writing my thesis about how universities in Denmark navigate the tensions between open science and knowledge security in a geopolitical landscape in flux.

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  • Hedvig Ördén

    POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

    Areas of expertise Critical security studies | Intelligence studies | Security and intelligence practices

    My research is situated in the fields of critical security studies and intelligence studies, with an emphasis on new concepts of security, questions of security and intelligence expertise, and practices in relation to emerging threats. In my work, I strive to be problem-driven and methodologically diverse, drawing inspiration from, and bringing together, different fields such as international political sociology, political theory and science and technology studies (STS), but always with an aim of furthering the understanding of contemporary policy and practices in a democratic context.

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